Description

ACKLINGTON ACKLINGTON VILLAGE
NU 20 SW (South side)
7/8 Church of St. John
the Divine
GV II

Parish Church. 1860 by James Deason, for the Duke of Northumberland. Snecked
tooled stone with ashlar dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roofs. 4-bay
nave with north and south porches; chancel with north vestry. C13 style.
Chamfered plinth with small trefoil vents beneath each window. West end shows
two 2-light windows with cinquefoiled round light above, flanked by large
stepped buttresses; single lancets to aisle ends. Steep gable, of lower pitch
above aisles, carrying tall gabled bellcote with twin pointed arches. Gabled
north and south porches with double-chamfered arches, the inner order on
colonnettes, and square-headed loops in returns; above arch of north porch an
ornate wrought-iron lamp bracket inscribed 'VICTORIA 1887'. Within porches
stone benches and similar inner doorways have boarded and-studded double doors
with foliate hinges. Single lancets to west of porches, paired lancets to
east; single lancet at east end of south aisle. 2-bay chancel with single and
paired trefoiled lancets in side walls, and 3 stepped lancets to east;
priest's door on south. Pent-roofed vestry has extruded canted east passage
with trefoil window and stone slab roof; tall chimneystack with moulded stone
top. Coped gables on moulded kneelers with panelled gablets; foliate finial
crosses on east gables.

Interior: Plastered. Double-chamfered nave arcades with hoodmoulds on
foliage boss stops; round piers with moulded capitals and bases. Similar
chancel arch on shafted jambs. High wagon roofs with ashlar pieces to rafter
feet. Tiled sanctuary. Stone pulpit with quatrefoil frieze and nailhead
cornice. Carved chancel screen as memorial to Sir Charles Stamp Milburn of
Guyzance, d. 1917.

Listing NGR: NU2272601894

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26652294

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)